Pasting-machine.



P. PIERSON.

PASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1911.

' 1,128,501. Patented Feb..16, 1915.

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PASTING MACHINE:

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1911.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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PAUL PIERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PASTING-MACHINE.

1,128,501. specification of Letters ment- Patented Feb. 16, 1915. Application filed August 30, 1911. Serial No. 646,826.

To all whom it may concern: comprises an upper roll 19 and a lower Be it known that 1, PAUL PIERSON, a acting roll 20 between which the strip of resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook paper passes. A roll 21 for guiding the and State of Illinois, have invented certain paper is disposed between the feed-rolls and 0 new and useful Improvements in Pastingthe roll of paper 11 and this roll 21 is Machines, of which the following is a full, mounted in open bearin s 26 of a frame 23. clear, and exact description. The strip of paper is fed forward of rolls The invention relates to machines for ap- 19, 20 by endless wires 24 which underlie plying an agglutinant to strips of cloth or the strip and pass through peripheral 5 13 paper, which are particularly adapted for grooves 25 in roll 20 around a correspondu.-e on cigar or other boxes, the latter usuingly grooved roll 26 at the rear end of ally having strips pasted along the corners the machine and another correspondingly I to conceal the joints and to improve the apgrooved roll 27 at the front of the machine. pearance of the finished box. toll 26 is mounted in bearings 28 formed 73 The invention designs to provide an imin frame 23, and roll 27 is mounted in blocks proved machine which facilitates the work 29 which are slidably mounted in guides 30 of the operator in applying strips to boxes, forn'ied in brackets 31 respectively, which by applying the agglutinant to one face of are secured to the table 10 at the front end the strip and feeding it forward intermitthereof. A spring is applied to each 5 tently at the will of the operator, as necesbearing 29 to exert suflicient pressure upon sary in the progress of the work on the said bearings, to cause roll 27 to keep the boxes, the strip being taken from a roll, fed endless wires 21 taut and prevent them from through mechanism for applying the agsagging between the rollsaround which they glutinant and into position to be severed pass. The force of springs 32 may be varied go by the operator in pieces of the desired by screws 33. The wires 21 can-y the strip length. forwardly of and away from the feed-rolls, The invention consists in the several novel and into convenient position to be manipufeatures hereinafter set forth and more parlated by the operator. Roll 21 causes the ticularly defined by claims at the concluweb to be passed onto wires 24' before it 5 sion hereof. passes between rolls '19, 20, to insure uniform In the drawings, Figure 1 is an end ele contact between the paper and the aggluvation of a machine embodying the inven tinant-applying roll 20, despite variation of tion, the foot-lever being shown depressed the size of the roll of paper. Roll 20 is seor in position assumed after a length of the cured to a shaft 85 which is mounted in 0 35 strip has been fed forwardly and before the bearings 36 of frame 23 and the upper feedlever is retracted. Fig. 2 is a section on line roll 19 is secured to a shaft 37 which is jour- 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central vertical naled in blocks 38. Said blocks are mountsection of the agglutinant applying and paed to slide in-guides 39 on frame 23,. and

per-feeding mechanism. Fig. 4 is a vertisprings 40 are applied to said bearing blocks .5 40 cal section taken on line 4-1 of Fig. 3. to-press roll 19 toward the co-acting roll 20. The machine, for the convenience of the Screws 41 extend through top plates 42 to operator, is mounted upon a table 10 and a adjust the force of said springs, so that the continuous web of paper 11 to which the pressure against the paper may be varied to agglutinant is to be applied, is wound upon cause paste in proper amount to be applied 100 45 a roll 12, which is held on a shaft 13, which to the paper by roll 20. Y

rests in open bearings 14 on brackets 15, Roll 20, in addition to eo-acting with roll which are secured upon the top of table 10. 19 to feed the strip forwardly, serves to A presser-lever 16 is adapted to engage the apply the agglutinant to the under side of outside of the roll of paper 11 to keep the the strip. A receptacle 42 is formed in 5 strip taut or to prevent unwinding of the frame 23 and contains the liquid-agglutiroll except by the paper-feeding mechanism. nant. A roll 43 rotates in the agglutinant This presser-lever is pivoted as at 17 in and is secured to a shaft 14 which is mountbrackets 15 and a spring 18 is applied to said ed in bearings 15 of frame 23. This roll 13 lever to frictionally engage the roll of paper. transfers the agglutinant in regular quan- 110 The device for drawing the strip of patity to the roll 20 with which the upper porper from roll 11 and feeding it forwardly tion of roll 48 contacts. A wiper 46, conport and carry the strip forwardly, into poe sition to be removed by the operator.

Mechanism is provided for intermittently operating the paper-feed andt agglutinantare to be applied vary considerably and, the

work of applying the strips can be facilitated if each strip of paper severed from the continuousplength is approximately of the length of one end or side of the box. Tlns mechanism is operable by a foot-lever or trea'dle l8 which is pivoted in a .bracket 49,'

which is secured to the floor and'operated inone direction or retr'acted by a spring 50.

A rod 5l has its lower end connectedto lever 48 and its upper end to a sprocket chain 52 which extends around a sprocket-wheel 53 i; and is connectedto a rod 53 to. which a,

spring .54 is applied to retract the chain after each operation, of lever L8. 'Sprockeb wheel 53 has a one-way operating connecf tion with a shaft 57 which is journaled in a bracket 58 on table 10, comprising one-way clutch teeth on the hub of sprocket-wheel 53 and co-acting teeth on a disk ormember 59 which is rigidly secured vto said shaft, the

with said-member. By this means, downward movement of lever 48 will operate shaft 57 in one direction, to operate the shaft '57 and the paper-feed and agglutinant-aplying devices will remain stationary. Shaft 57 serves to drive roll 19, by means of V a gear-wheel 6l secured to said shaft and [meshing with a pinion 62 secured to the Roll 20 is operated by shaft ofsaid roll. gears 63 and 64: secured to the shafts of Roller 43 is 64.3 Endless wires 24 are driven in synchronism with the paper-feed, by a pulley 66 secured to-rotate with gear 64, a belt 67, and a pulley 68 on the shaft of roller '26. jRoller 27 is driven by the wires 24:.

The strip of paper on wires 24: having the agglutinant applied to its underside passes beneath a cross-bar or cutter 69 which is support forthe boxes'to which the strips are tobeapplied, so that they will be in con- 'venient position to have the strips applied thereto."

I The operation of the improved machine will 'be'as follows: During each operation of lever 48, the .rolls 19 and 20 will draw the paper from'roll ll'and roll 20 will apply agglutinant to the under face of the strip as it passes between these rolls. T hejpaper with the aggliitinant thereon, will becarried forwardly under cutter 69, by endless wires 24, into position to be graspedby the operator and to'rnofl at cuter (59. he operator may then apply this strip to'the box; By

discontinuing the downward'movement of lever 48 at different points, the paper-feed "will be varied,so that the length of thestrip in front of cutter 69 will vary 'and the-operator may readily tear off the pasted strips inthe different lengthssdesired. Durin-gthe" return or upward stroke-of lever 48 the paper-feed will remainidle and in'this manner the mechanism may be intermittently operated at .will'to apply'agglutinant to suecessive portions of desired and varied length of the web and the paper will be held upon the wires 24 in convenient position to be removed and' severed from the remaining portion of the strip and then' applied to a box;

The invention thus provides an improved machine for feeding the strip of paper and I applying an agglutinant thereto in lengths.

desired and which materially facilitates the a work of'the operator in applying aggluti-. "nant to'the strips and thelatter to the boxes.- paper feed and agglutinant applying def vices, and during the retraction of lever/18,

Theinvention is not to'be understood. as restricted to the details set forth, since'these may be modified by the skilled mechanic withinthe scope'of the appended claims,

without departing froinithe spirit and scope r 0f, the. invention.

' 'Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and'desire'to'securebyLetters Patentist Y 1. In a machine of the character described,

the combination of a pair of feed rolls for a. Y

continuous strip of material, means for sup plying agglutinant to one of the'rolls, a stationary cutter, anjendless conveyer for supporting the strip after the agglutinant has been applied thereto and extending from one of the rolls to a point beyond the cutter to support the portion of the strip which is to be severed, and mechanism for conjointly operating said rolls and said conveyer, the latter bein disposed to support a portion of the strip where it will be torn off by the sta tionary cutter as said strip portion is removed from the conveyor.

2. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a pair of feed rolls for a continuous strip of material, means for supplying agglutinant to one of the rolls, a stationary cutter, an endless conveyer for supporting the strip after the agglutinant has been applied thereto and extending from one of the rolls to a point beyond the cutter to support the portion of the strip which is to be severed, and mechanism for intermittently and conjointly operating said rolls and said conveyer,said mechanism being operable to advance strips of di'lferent lengths beyond the cutter, the conveyer supporting the strip at a point where the portion to be severed will be torn off by the stationary cutter as said portion is removed from the conveyer.

3. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a pair of feed rolls for a continuous strip of material, means for supplying agglutinant to one of the rolls, a stationary cutter, an endless C011- veyer for supporting the strip after the agglutinant has been applied thereto and exnism for intermittently and conjointly operating the rolls and the conveyer comprising a vertically movable lever, a one-way driving connection and a flexible connection between the lever and the one-way connection, the lever being operable to operate the connection any desired extent according to the length of the strip to be severed, the conveyer being disposed to support a portion of the strip where it will be torn 0E by the stationary knife as the strip is removed'from the conveyer.

4. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a pair of feed rolls for a continuous strip of material, one of which has peripheral grooves therein, means for supplying agglutinant to one of the rolls, a stationary cutter, endless wires for supporting and conveying the strip after the agglutinant has been applied and extending under, adjacent and beyond the nism for conjointly operating said rolls and said wires to feed a portion of the strip beyond the Wires, said Wires being extended to support said portion of the strip and disposed so that said portion will be torn off by the knife as it is removed from the wire.

PAUL PIERSON.

Witnesses FRED GARLACH, AMY J EHLE,

cutter, and mechai 

